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Extract from The Dandelion Tree

Jidlaph sat deep below the surface of Isaac’s consciousness. Before him bubbles passed through the light cast into the darkness by the lanterns of theSubconscious Tavern.He turned as the tavern door swung open. Ripples flowed through the fluid filled interior.A sentry looked up and tapped a domino onto the table.

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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Effervescing Elephant - Syd Barrett (Acoustic)

CHAPTER 20: THE TUNE OF THE CHARMER

Fable clenched his teeth shut. Tiny bubbles started fizzing out through his white barricade. Donaldson watched as the bubbles grew larger until a bubble pushed up from the back of Fable's throat and forced his teeth apart.'Effervescing elephant.'Fable spoke the words as bubbles burst around his face.

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Continued : Extract from The Dandelion Tree

A young man, wearing a long overcoat and a rolo with trim hat, swam through. Jidlaph shrank back into the darkness and watched.The sentry clinked his double six domino down onto the table and nodded at the man.

The man pulled the collars to his coat up around his neck and leant against the bar.

‘Ten pints of Memento Melt and a Benco Belch, extra chilled.’

Behind him a chrome jukebox squatted on the floor; the aural displacement of Morrissey’s ‘First Of The Gang To Die,’ rippled out through a blue arc. The bartender looked at him as he pulled down on the tap.A red sticky fluid glooped down into a dirty glass.The man stared back for a moment, then turned and examined the sentries’ muskets lying in the rack against the far wall.

by Ross SayersLiz stepped out into the cold foyer, a light layer of sweat now dried on her back. Networking, she thought, he had said networking so many times, but she still didn't have a clue what he meant.

by Dan MicklethwaiteNowadays, they slink through barriers with otherworldly grace. None of them have need for mirrors or make-up any longer, and yet here they are, at their most radiant and tender-looking.

by Anne Lauppe-DunbarAs the very last tourist departs, night floats through the building and the Old Woman with a Rosary oozes from her canvas into the expectant air of Room 45. She whispers a longing to pick one sunflower, just the one

by Susmita BhattacharyaAgain and again, it plays in a loop, till she is so exhausted it doesn’t register anymore. The fluorescent lights that blinded her that night. The pain that stretched her body so far that she felt herself tear apart.

by Ruby CowlingI felt a sudden jab in my heel, and I hopped over, sat down and pulled off my shoe. An emerald the size of a hornet was rolling around inside. It shone from the inside and it smelt like limes.

Combining dark humour with a vision of the future that is almost an inverse of
the classic dystopian nightmare of 1984, Mike’s latest novel follows in the tradition of great Speculative Fiction satirists such as Jonathan Swift.

wonderbra: Advertising Standards Authority: 1984

"We received 89 complaints about the poster campaign for the new wonderbra. The complainants found the large depiction picture of a woman in only a bra, alongside the caption “Hello Boys”. sexist and offensive. Nevertheless, in the context of an ad for underwear, we believed the posters were humorous and that the complaints were not justified."Source:http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/

Hello Boys

In The Dandelion Tree there are two references to this advert by Wonderbra. Which one was best?